#Halloween marks the anniversary of Europe's first act of ethnic cleansing.

With the 1290 Edict of Expulsion, Edward I banished all Jews (roughly 3000) from England in return for Parliament's permission to raise a tax of £116,000 – the largest single tax of the Middle Ages.
1/ Not until Cromwell in 1656 were Jews allowed to return to England.

The Edict only had force in England. Scotland being free from English State repression.
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In memory of #kristalnacht, a short thread on #heidelberg's nazi-era history, tourist charm, and the righteous need for academic boycotts.

Remember folks, "every document of culture is a document of barbarism."
@CAPASHeidelberg @DanielABarber @anitchang
1/ Every tourist to #Heidelberg sees the New University Building in University Square.
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This is a thread about #heidelberg history, which typically combines the commemorative of progressive politics against the city's spießig (petit bourgeois meanness) history.
Trattoria Toscana stands at Marktplatz 1.
@CAPASHeidelberg folks often eat here after our lectures.
1/ In the 19th century, this was the location of the Schwanen-Apotheke (not to be confused with the contemporary Schwan Apotheke on Hauptstr).

More than just a drug store, it was a pharmaceutical institute, an independent site of scientific discovery.
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In my last days in #Heidelberg, seeing what needs to be seen.

Holocaust center for Sinti and Roma. The Nazis made no Dustin ction between Jews and Roma.
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shortly before I leave Heidelberg, I made it up into the Honor Cemetery, a Nazi project in 1934 where WWI soldiers were exhumed and moved into a new ceremonial space.
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The photos don't adequately convey the monumental landscaping, where the eye is drawn to a stone plinth and then beyond.

I want to commemorate Kenneth Jacobson, who recently passed at 92.
Like many I knew Ken from @actupny, where he calmly chaired the tempestuous Treatment & Data committee during my time.
Ken's in the black jacket here;
1/ ACT UP was one of the rare American organisations where people didn't ask immediately what your "profession" was, so many were unaware that Ken was an accomplished composer, including a song that Sinatra choose for his standard book: "Golden Moment"

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Since we're getting another round of the pointless #marx v. #Foucault debate, once more for those in the back,
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#marx + #Foucault

happened in my senior HS year in my hometown.
How many real locations will be used?

eu.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/202… To be honest, my recollection is that this did not cause a moral panic, since it was widely assumed that the husband had done it, what did unnerve folks more were the earlier Alphabet Killings:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_…

In a year when a lot of confusion is floating about #foucault, this will help. #foucault 1/4